Have got quite a few beaver shots so was going for something different today... was trying to capture the instant of a tail slap just as the tail impacts and just before the dive but was juuuuuuust a split second too late all I got was a rump and a foot what I do like about the pic though is that you can see by the coloration of the water just below the splashing wall of water that there is a large impact crater caused by the tail impact.

beaver from this morning... while driving out I saw a raven on the side of the road.. when I got closer it took off and I realised it was a small vulture... grrrrrr.. no shots... checked out what it was on and it was a frshly dead beaver... guts still intact... no pics of that...

headed west today from where I was yest to grasslands national park before heading home...

found a gopher

didnt want to start a new thread for one pic so just throwing this here...

thought I had found a fox or coyote den... when I made just a bit of noise out front this guy popped out... not sure who was more scared but I didnt stick around long... only got a few shots and this was the only one worth posting...

Pretty sure these aren't "rodents" persay but,rather than start a new thread...
Had a pretty neat encounter with these two last evening.
I call them Jekyl & Hyde
One second they were all friendly the next ...lookout Both had ticks stuck to their eyelids...maybe that was it?...lol
Interestingly tho I caught a Mosquito stealing the ticks supper,great to see they too have "pests"

rodent pics these days are all too common for me so I'm trying to scale back and wait for something out of the ordinary... these 2 I think are such..

this was around the calgary airport while I was waiting for my connecting flight.. took a walk in a field and found these 2... pic one reminds me of an old guy on the right all grumpy with his sweetie next to him lookin for a kiss on the cheek... pic two she turns her head just as he is to give her a peck... yes... at times my imagination is out there... either that or I'm spending too much time in the bush